Rail-seat holder



V. E. RANDALL.

RAIL SEAT HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED JULY 5,1918.

1,337,621, Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

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lTFiD STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VICTOR E. RANDALL, OF BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO BENJAMIN GNATKIN, OF BATTLE GREEK, MICHIGAN.

BAIL-SEAT HOLDER.

Application filed July 5, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Vioron E. RANDALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Battle Creek, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Rail-Seat Holders, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being therein explained and the best mode I have devised for reducing that principle to practice.

The invention relates to rail seat holders to be employed in connection with cross-ties for retaining the shims or rail seats beneath the rails, and it is of especial significance where metallic or composite ties are installed. One importantobject of the invention is to provide a device of the character for holding shims or rail seats of wood or other material in position upon the tie and under the rail. Among other objects of the invention is to aiiord a device of the charac ter whereby a rail seat may be shifted along on a cross tie to accommodate the rail in its attachment to the tie.

Another object of the invention is to construct the side walls thereof so that rail clamping members when bearing on the rail flanges may be held from side displacement.

Other objects of the invention are, to construct a rail seat holder whereby the rail seat may be held from endwise as well as side displacement; whereby the same will be simple in construction, economical to manufacture and thoroughly efiicacious in operation for the purpose designed.

To these ends the invention consists in the design, construction and combination of ele ments that will be hereinafter more fully de scribed, shown in the drawings and defined in the appended claims, it being understood that minor changes may be resorted to without departing from or sacrificing any of the advantages of my invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a section of a concrete tie with my rail seat holder with a rail shim or seat in operative position on the tie, and a railway rail clamped in operative position.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of an embodiment of my invention shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan of a metallic blank par tially cut away, as used for making the rail seat holder shown in Figs. 1 and 2, showing the outline of the rail sea-t holder before forming up.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1920.

Serial No. 243,451.

Fig. a is a perspective view in modification of a rail seat holder.

Fig. 5 is aplan view of a metallic blank in modification, partially cut away and slit as used for forming the holders shownin Fig. 4.

Fig. 6 is a perspective View or another modification of my rail seat holder.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of another modification of my rail seat holder, the same being formed of welded or riveted angle-bar iron sections.

Like marks or reference refer to corresponding or equivalent parts throughout the views, in which A represents my rail seat holder, 13, a broken section of a composite tie; C, a section of T-rail; D, a rail clamp 5 E, a clamp lag screw; and F, a resilient shim or rail seat, the same being of wood or other material adequate for the purpose.

As shown in Figs. 1, 2, l, 6 and 7, the rail seat holder comprises upwardly disposed parallel sides 1 running crosswise of the tie and connected at their ends below the side edges by integral portions, as 2, shown in Figs. 1, 2, 4 and 6, and by means of riveted or welded portions on the ends 3, shown in Fig. 7.

Preferably the rail seat holder is formed from sheet metal out and shaped by machinery adapted to the purpose, although it would be obvious that the same might be constructed of malleable iron, cast steel, or from assembled elements to answer the purpose.

The embodiment shown in Figs. 1 and 2, comprises the upwardlyspaced sides 1 having the outwardly-turned bottom angles 4-, the same arranged to lie transverse of a cross-tie, as B in Fig. 1, and connected at their ends by downwardly-turned portions 2 of the metal, the ends ling below said sides and arranged to bear'against the sides of a cross-tie, as shown.

Between the sides and lying on the face of the tie, a wooden or other resilient shim or rail seat F is placed.

To preclude any tendency of a rail seat to move edgewise in its bearing, ears 5 project upwardly from the ends 2 suiiiciently only for such purpose.

In Figs. 1 and 2, elongated slots 6 are formed in the edges of the sides 1, through which the nose of the rail clamps D may be fitted, an object in providing slots or the like being for the purpose or stabilizing the clamp in its connection with the rail flange. as for instance, the rail seat holder being precluded from moving longitudinally with the rail, owing to its ends 2 bearing against the sides of a tie, also precluding said clamp nose from moving sidewise from the rail flange.

In Fig. 7, the sides 1 are formed of anglebar iron arranged in substantially the same position as are the sides of the rail seat holder shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the connections 3 between the sides, however, differing in the respect that said connections likewise are of angle-bar iron disposed with one of their edges downwardly, the other outwardly, terminating flush with the side ends, the contact of the parts being riveted or fused, as may be expedient.

In Fig. 6 the rail seat holder comprises the two vertically-disposed spaced sides 1 integrally connected at their ends by horizontally-disposed portions 3 formed to lie wholly below the bottom edges of the sides, the opening through the device, as well as in the other devices hereinbeforo set forth, being of elongated rectangular form. By placing the shim or rail seat F directly on a tie B, decay of the shim as well as rust of the rail seat holder from the effects of the elements will be reduced to a mniinum. The rail seat holder will give longer enduring service also for being held between the side walls of the holder, as the tendency to splinter and separate will be eliminated. Another feature of great importancein placing the shim or rail seat directly on the tie is the elimination of clatter and wear of the parts as well as grinding of the tie, grinding and fracture being especially noticeable where metallic surfaces are fitted to composite bases over which heavy rolling stock passes.

' In the different modifications the element of utility is the same, i. 0., a rail sec t holder comprising spaced side members lying crosswise of a tie and connected at its ends below said members by girt portions bearing against the sides of the tie, a rail seat interposed between said sides and resting on a tie, the whole capable of being moved along on a tie to accommodate the placing of a rail. r The rail seat holder as described can be employed with either metallic or composite ties and by its use the necessity for making ties with specially designed rail-bearing seats is'eliminated, and a further advantage in its use is from its portability, whereby it can be moved to any desired position on the tie. These and other advantages will be readily comprehended by those familiar with the art.

' From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawing, a more extended explanation of the objects and advantages of the device is believed to be unnecessary.

Having, therefore, described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is r 1. A rail seat holder comprising upright parallel spaced sides connected at their ends below the bottom of their sides, said ends having upwardly-projecting lugs.

2. In a rail seat holder, the combination of a cross tie, resilient rail bearing seats resting on said tie, metallic rectangular frames having depending outer ends engaging over the sides of said tie, and with connective upright sides resting on said tie and against the adjacent sides of said resilient seats, the d pending ends of said frames being wholly below said resilient seats, for the purpose set forth and described.

3. in a rail seat holder, the combination of a cross-tie, a rectangular metallic frame open between its sides and ends carried by said tie, the ends of said frame depending from its sides wholly below the face of said cross tie, the sides of said frame'extending upwardly from said tie, and a resilient railbearing seatresting upon the face of said tie between the upwardly-extending sides of said frame, for the purpose set forth and described.

1-. A rail seat holder formed from an elongated rectangular strip of sheet metal having an elongated rectangular opening, said opening being between the upwardly bent portions ofsaid metal forming its sides and the downwardly bent portions forming its ends.

5. A rail seat holder, the combination of a metallic framework having upright parallel sides with outwardly disposed bottom edges connected below the ends of their sides, and a resilient rail seat fitted within said flktll'lQWOlfK between its sides.

6. A rail seat holder, the combination witha metallic framework having vertically disposed parallel sides with outwardly-e2:- tending bottom edges connected below the ends of its sides, a resilient rail seat fitted within said framework between said sides, and means extending from said framework to prevent longitudinal displacement of said seat.

7. A rail seat holder, the combination with a cross tie, a resilient rail seat placed on said tie, and a metallic framework engaging said rail seat along its edges transversely to said tie and bearing against said tie below the bottom of and at the ends of said rail seat and against the sides of said cross tie, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

'8. A rail seat holder, the combination ofa cross tie, a resilient rail seat placed on said tie, a i-rail resting on said rail seat, a metallic framework engaging said rail seat along its edges transversely to said cross tie and bearing against the sides or" said cross tie below the bottom of and the ends of said rail seat, rail clamps fitting through notches formed in the upper edges of said framework and bearing upon the flanges 01"- said T-rail, substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

9. A rail seat holder comprising upright parallel spaced sides connected at their ends below the bottom of their sides, said ends bending downwardly in parallel allnement, a portion of said ends extending upwardly above a plane or the bottom of said sides. 15

VICTOR E. RANDALL.

Witnesses H. H. BALDORFF, J. L. READE. 

